Messages in this thread | | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:59:25 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: user space web server accelerator support |
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Fabio Riccardi writes: > How can Apache "grab" the file descriptor? > > My understanding is that file descriptors are data structures private to > a process... > > Am I missing something?
Unix sockets allow one processes to "give" a file descriptor to another process via a facility called "file descriptor passing".
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